Writer Guide

Using the thesaurus
The thesaurus offers alternative words and phrases. Select the word or
phrase you want to find alternatives for and select Tools > Language
> Thesaurus or press Control+F7 . Click on a meaning to show
alternative words and phrases for that meaning of the word. For
example, when given the word “house”, the thesaurus offers several
meanings, including “dwelling”, “legislature”, and “sign of the zodiac”.
If you click on “dwelling”, you will see “dwelling”, “home”, “domicile”,
“abode”, and other alternatives, as shown in Figure 78.
Note
If the current language does not have a thesaurus installed,
this feature is disabled.
Figure 78: The thesaurus offers alternatives to words
Hyphenating words
To turn automatic hyphenation of words on or off:
1) Press F11 to open the Styles and Formatting window (Figure 79).
Figure 79: Modifying a style
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